Re: Authentication Problem for SquirrelMail

On Jul 29, 6:04 pm, Bill Marcum <marcumb...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 01:44:54 -0700, JOHN MATHEW <mathew.mel...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

i am trying to setup webmail for my mail server.What i have done is
enabled IMAP from dovecot and opened up port for imap,Installed
squirrel mail.After that when i try to login as root it's giveing this
error message.

ERROR:
ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server.

please help to resolve this authentication problem.

Does it work when you login as any other user? If so, edit /etc/aliases
to send root's mail to another user.

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hi thanks a lot..
i checked for other users..its working fine for other users.but why
it's not working for root.

is it blocking root or any security reason??

Thank you
Melbin Mathew

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